1.   On Long Island Thursday, investigators continued their painstaking inquiry into the crash, poring over the first big haul of wreckage from the downed airliner since September.

2.   Charred metal and plastic fragments of a downed airliner covered the narrow, twisting lanes of a Sao Paulo neighborhood Friday.

3.   The US Navy team, however, is not equipped to retrieve the bodies believed to be trapped inside the downed airliner, Peruvian officials said.

4.   Searchers were trucking in heavy equipment to the Florida swamps Sunday preparing to sift for the remains of the downed ValuJet airliner.